train dream               
     
                                       
                                         
                                         
                                          
               (situation)                
                                          
 you  find   yourself  in  a   rift  -  a 
  clearing, narrow but immeasurably long. 
 to your sides  are walls made of  trees, 
 thick and ready to  swallow you. the sun 
 is nowhere  to be  seen,  but nontheless 
 it is very bright - the  air feels light 
           blue, almost white.            
                                          
 along the span of  the  clearing lay two 
    parallel silvery lines, dark hard     
 metal.  somehow you  can see  how  heavy 
                 they are.                
                                          
 they  emit   a   high  pitched  whine... 
                                          
                                         
                                     
                                         
                                          
               (situation)                
                                          
 youre   at  the  train station,   on   a 
 catwalk  above the  rails. your train is 
 late, or you  are  late  to  the  train. 
 it's a summer afternoon and the  station 
 is busy,  full  of  relaxed  confidence. 
                                          
 you're in  high spirits, although a  bit 
 stressed  about the  time,  while moving 
 up the  stairs  to  your  platform.  the 
 station  is   in   several  levels,  all 
      placed within eachother by some     
    intelligent designer, and full of     
      stairs, elevators, shortcuts,       
 bazaars...  you sight your train through 
 some glass  windows. it's...  not  where 
           it's supposed to be?           
                                          
                                         
                                     
                                         
                                          
               (situation)                
                                          
 you're  finally entering the city. while 
 it  is indeed  a very  high  speed train 
 you're traveling  in,  the  journey  has 
 been  long.   but  it's  about  to  end! 
                                          
 society is  growing denser  around  you, 
 through the windows you see  first small 
 shacks, built of metal and  stone,  then 
 proper houses  with mortar  to keep them 
 together... who  in  turn make  way  for 
    the industrial buildings, the urban   
      maze, protective walls, jungle      
                network...                
                                          
 the  tracks leave  the ground, which  is 
 needed  for  other  purposes.  you   are 
   carried gently, curving upwards until  
 you're moving upward  along  the wall of 
 a building. it's  made  of slabby stone, 
     with great glassless window holes    
 looking  out the  way  you came.  it  is 
            pitch black inside.